... first place? This leads us to contemplate if what these men are saying is indeed reasonable. It can be suggested that language affects and possibly controls perception, as it does in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It suggests that the language in which we speak controls how we think and what we can think. This essentially implies that "the limits of my language stand for the limits of my world" as Edward Sapir once stated. For example, if I wanted to describe what it takes to be a traditional Turkish belly dancer, in Turkish you would say "Oina" however there is no English translation, the best definition would be something that you have within your body, you either have it or you don't. Thus English speakers or those who don't know Turkish will never perceive what it is the Turkish are trying to describe. This supports the idea that if we ...

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